Name:Eisenhardt, Peter
Email:Peter.R.Eisenhardt@jpl.nasa.gov
Institution:JPL/Caltech
Title:MaxWISE: Astrophysics with the Reactivated NEOWISE
Topic:Discoveries
Abstract:MaxWISE: Astrophysics with the Reactivated NEOWISE
The repeated coverages of the sky by the ongoing NEOWISE survey offer the potential for astrophysics well beyond those possible using the existing WISE and AllWISE data products. Combining the anticipated total of 4 years of survey will detect L* galaxies at 4.6 microns to redshift 2, vs. redshift 0.5 in the one year of surveying comprising AllWISE. WIth a time baseline a dozen times longer than AllWISE, over 10,000 cool nearby stars can be detected from their proper motions. With 8 epochs of observation taken using a 2 au baseline, parallaxes can be measured for all T6 dwarfs within 10 pc, objects too cool for Gaia. I will summarize the proposed MaxWISE effort to realize these potential gains for the astrophysics community.